Most significant positive evidence
The evidence concerns extraordinary courage, ingenuity and equal regard for threatened people while operating under direct Nazi and Arrow Cross danger.
Person
Raoul Wallenberg
The assessment covers protective passports, safe houses, intervention against deportations and repeated personal efforts to protect Hungarian Jews during the final phase of the Holocaust.
This is a contemporary assessment current to 26 June 2026. It must be revised as later conduct and evidence become available.
Ethical assessment categories
Current published result
Overall ethical score
+99.01
Reasoned summary
Wallenberg repeatedly used diplomatic access, improvisation and personal courage to obstruct mass murder. The assessed record approaches the highest positive end of the scale.
This assessment presents six separate ethical dimensions rather than one overall moral score. Each result must be read with its evidence, plausible range, confidence, disputes, exclusions, severe-harm findings and sources.
Most significant negative evidence
No substantiated grave ethical misconduct was identified in the assessed rescue period. Uncertainty remains about exact rescue totals and the division of credit among a wider diplomatic and relief network.
Read the full Raoul Wallenberg ethical assessment, evidence and sources
Six-dimensional ethical profile
The overall figure is the equal-weight average of the applicable dimensions. It does not replace the separate scores, evidence or uncertainty.
- Personal moral conduct
- +99.00
- Rights and dignity
- +99.00
- Nonviolence and harm
- +100.00
- Stewardship of power
- +99.00
- Wisdom and truthfulness
- +97.53
- Consequential legacy
- +99.50
- Severe-harm record
- No separate finding recorded
Assessment history
Ethical assessment: Raoul Wallenberg (1944–1945)
1944–1945 · Published assessment · reviewed June 26, 2026
Result: Six-dimensional ethical profile